Hogmanay Festival Quotes & Sayings

the shadows may come and engulf your world, but if you look hard enough you'll always see that spark in the abyss leading you back to the light and the next adventure waiting to be had — B.B. Taylor

Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The other day I got out the shower and I bend down to reach for a towel, and I felt a sharp pain in my chest. Shot through my chest and up around my shoulder and down my spine. I thought 'Oh, Lord.' I thought I was dying. I bent over and looked, and I was standing on my own titty. — Eddie Murphy

There is always another side, always. — Jean Rhys

I'm English, without a doubt. I will never ever say I'm not English. English born and bred. I'm Turkish, though — Colin Kazim-Richards

All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see? — Anthony Horowitz

Believe it, brethren, God looks for more from England, than from most nations in the world; and for more from you that enjoy these helps, than from the dark, untaught congregations of the land (271). — Richard Baxter

It's the kind of house you'd like to wake up in on Christmas morning. — Michael Chabon

We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating - lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds. — Eckhart Tolle

Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you. — Shannon L. Alder

I go downstairs and the books blink at me from the shelves. Or stare. In a trick of the light, a row of them seems to shift very slightly, like a curtain blown by the breeze through an open window. Red is next to blue is next to cream is adjacent to beige. But when I look again, cream is next to green is next to black. A tall book shelters a small book, a huge Folio bullies a cowering line of Quartos. A child's nursery rhyme book does not have the language in which to speak to a Latin dictionary. Chaucer does not know the words in which Henry James communicates but here they are forced to live together, forever speechless. — Susan Hill

Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths. — Os Guinness

What will you do now with the gift of your left life? — Carol Ann Duffy